dr Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka Papers presented at international ...

dr Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka
Papers presented at international conferences and congresses:
(1) Paper read during 1st International Polish Congress of Canadian Studies, Nicolaus
Copernicus University, Toruń, April 20-22, 2001: “Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the
Idea of English-Canadian National Literary Canon.”
(2) Paper read during The Third Canadian Studies One Day Conference, Vilnus University,
Lithuania, October 5, 2002. “A Stranger in the World’- The Quest for Identity in Carol
Shields’ The Stone Diaries”.
(3) Paper read during 3rd Congress of Polish Association for Canadian Studies & 3rd
International Conference of Central European Canadianists, Jagiellonian University
Cracow, April 30- May 03, 2004. “Confessions of a Dispassionate Witness – Jane
Urquhart’s The Underpainter”
(4) Paper read during 13 th Annual PASE Conference, Poznań, Adam Mickiewicz University,
May 16-17, 2004. “Between Cultures and Among Genres: Margaret Atwood’s The Blind
Assassin”.
(5) Paper read during Annual PASE Conference, Łódz University, April 5-7, 2005. “Quaking
‘the male kingdom’ – gendering borders in Aritha van Herk’s fiction”.
(6) Paper read during 4 th Congress of Polish Canadianists, Lublin University, Puławy, 26-28
April, 2007. “‘Shadows catch up’ –official and private histories in The Way the Crow
Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald.”
(7) Paper read during 33rd Annual Conference, British Association for Canadian Studies.
Warwick University, Coventry, Great Britain 5-7 April, 2008. “On the outside and the
inside at the same time”- (de)constructing sameness and difference in Ann-Marie
MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees and The Way the Crow Flies”
(8) Paper read during 34th Annual Conference, British Association for Canadian Studies.
University of Oxford, Great Britain, 28-30 March, 2009. "We and thee (…), us and them" -
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley as a postmodern parable of difference”

(9) Paper read during 19th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of
English, Kalisz, April 19-21, 2010. “Transgressing boundaries to metamorphose – The
Outlander by Gil Adamson”
(10) Paper read during 5 th Congress of the Polish Association for Canadian Studies, Kraków,
October 7-9, 2010. “Broken dreams, trampled lives - contesting Canadian multiculturalism
in Ann Ireland’s Exile and Rawi Hage’s Cockroach”
(11) Paper read during the 20 th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of
English, Toruń, UMK, May 12-14 2011. “Everyone is a snake shedding its skin” -
becoming and unbecoming in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel”
Publications:
(1) 2002. “Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace and the Idea of English-Canadian National
Literary Canon.” Zeszyt Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii PWSZ w Koninie 1/2002. 22-
29.
(2) 2003. “A Stranger in the World’ – The Quest for Identity in Carol Shields’ “The Stone
Diaries”. Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies. Focus on: US-Canadian
Relations. Vol. 4/2003. Jolanta Szymkowska- Bartyzel (ed). Jagiellonian University
Press Cracow. 93-102.
(3) 2004. “I Suffer Therefore I Change” – The Echoes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Aritha
van Herk’s No fixed address: an amorous journey” in Aspects of Suffering. Classical
Themes in Literature in English, Liliana Sikorska (ed). Peter Lang Frankfurt am Mein.
157-179.
(4) 2005. "Congfessions of a Dispassionate Witness- Jane Urquhart's The
Underpainter".Place and Memory in Canada: Global Perspectives/ Lieu et Mémoire
au Canada: perspectives globales. Editors/Souls la direction de: Magdalena
Paluszkiewicz- Misiaczek, Anna Reczyńska, Anna Śpiewak. Zakład Kanady Instytutu
Amerykanistyki i Studiów Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego w Krakowie,
Polskie Towarzystwo Badań Kanadyjskich, Polska Akademia Umiejętności Kraków. 573-
583.

(5) 2006. “Rewriting the Old Theme – Nature in Carol Shields’ The Stone Diaries” Zeszyt
Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii. PWSZ Konin. 9-16.
(6) 2006. "Between Cultures and Among genres- Margaret Atwood's The Blind Assassin".
English Language, Literature and Culture. Selected papers from the 13th PASE
Conference Poznań 2004. ed. Jacek Fisiak, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań.
163-170.
(7) 2008. “There are too many of me” – the polyphony of written/writing selves in Carol
Shields’ Swann and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin”. Essays in Red and
White./Essais en rouge et blanc. Transcanadiana. Polish Journal of Canadian Studies.
1.2008. Krzysztof Jarosz, Agnieszka Rzepa (eds). Para: Katowice. 46-62.
(8) 2008. “Re/covering her/his stories - Margaret Laurence’s The Diviners”. Zeszyt
Naukowy Instytutu Neofilologii (5) 1/2008 (8).Mirosław Pawlak (red).The State
Profession School of Higher Education in Konin Press: Konin. 53-70.
(9) 2008. “Quaking ‘the male kingdom’ – gendering borders in Aritha van Herk’s fiction”.
PASE Studies in Literature and Culture. Magdalena Cieślak, Agnieszka Rasmus (red).
Łódz University Press: Łódz. 397-408.
(10) 2008. “‘Shadows catch up’ - official and private histories in The Way the Crow Flies
by Ann Marie MacDonald”. Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies. Vol 9/2008.
Jagiellonian University Press: Cracow. 95-103.
(11) 2009. “The Other is (Not) the Same – Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Novels of
Ann-Marie MacDonald.” Transcanadiana Canada and its Utopias/Canada et ses utopies”
Vol 2/2009. Anna Branach-Kallas, Dagmara Drewniak, Renata Jarzębowska-Sadkowska,
Piotrs Sadkowski (eds). Katowice: Para. 76-89.
(12) 2010. „Ty Najpierw odpowiedz. Stój! Podaj hasło” czyli kody dostępu do kanadyjskiej
mozaiki literackiej. (A review of M. Buchotlz Canadian Passwords. UMK University,
Toruń 2008.) Er(r)go "Klonowanie Kanady / Map(l)ing Canada" 17 (2/2008)
Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski. 199-208.
(13) 2010. Tanslation of Carol Gerson “The Most Canadian of All Canadian Poets- Pauline
Gerson and the Construction of a National Literature” Państwo – naród – tożsamość
w dyskursach kulturowych Kanady. Mirosława Buchholtz, Eugenia Sojka (eds).
Kraków: Universitas. 189-209.

(14) "We and thee (…), us and them" - Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley as a
postmodern parable of difference”; Ad Americam Journal of American Studies. Vol
11/2010, Jagiellonian University Press. 131-141
(15) ( in press) “Transgressing boundaries to metamorphose – The Outlander by Gil
Adamson” At The Crossroad of Literature and Culture Springer
(16) (in press) “Broken dreams, trampled lives - contesting Canadian multiculturalism in Ann
Ireland’s Exile and Rawi Hage’s Cockroach” Towards Critical Multiculturalism
(17) (in press) Fabiszak J., Urbaniak-Rybicka, E., Wolski, B. (eds) At The Crossroads of
Literature and Culture. Springer